Non-Western Calligraphy & Illumination

An iconographic database covering about 15,000 of the illuminations in the BNF's Department of Manuscripts.

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Uighur Script, also known as Old Script, Mongol Script, Script Mongolian, or Classical Mongolian, is an alphabetic script written vertically from top to bottom with lines progressing from left to right. This article will show the letters, in their various forms, along with their Latin and Cyrillic equivalents. This article will also cover some of the caveats of writing with this alphabet to allow the reader to be able to write in this script and pays extra attention to features, such as vowel harmony and the variations of letters, that tend to lack good descriptions in other English sources.